Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-01-29
tn q Proc x S-sIVS SOUTH.
A southern Journals Glowing Description Of
Its Future.

southern Journars Glowing Description of
Its Future.
PROM the baltimore sun.
Long before the movement from the
Northern and Middle states set in The .Si,p
repeatedly called attention to the new field
that since the war was opened at the South
for industrial emigration from the states and
from abroad. 1t pointed out its vast under
lying wealth of coal and iron ore, of lime
stone and manganese its great deposits OF
kaoline and OF copper and gold, its variety of
woods for constructive and decorative pur-
poses, and its thousands OF acres of fertile
soil. AT that time only few cotton factories
were In operation, some Eaoline deposits
worked, and, here and there, south OF Nir-
ginia, where coal mining had long been
going on, some feeble attempts made at min
ing-principally In Tennessee aud Alabama
where lew furnaces had been built for the
smelling ~ iron ore. II had bsen demon.
strated even then that cotton fabrics OF the
palmer kind could be produced at considera.
bly, less cost than At the North, and pig iron
laid on the bank ready for delivery at Sll per
ton. The great drawback was the want Of
adequate facilities for transportation to
market, but not long afterwards some enter
prising and clear-sigh ghted men, looking for
ward to the future development OF this min
ersl wealth, took up considerable bodies OF
land rich in coal and iron ore, and waited
until the time should come to utilize them,
The rapid extension OF railroads throughout
the South supplied the opportunity, and
while the Southern people OF the cotton Dslt
were increasing the number Ji their factories
in the vicinity of the plHotations that pro.
duced the raw material, Northern snd Eng.
lish capitalists we're descending ppon Wes-
tern Virginia, Tennessee and alabama, and
putting up furnaces, to be followed by roll
Ing mills, in the midst Of the iron and coal
Deposits Slow as the movement was at first
II has increased with such rspidty that great
coke and iron furnaces now line the cnesa
peake Ohio railroad, Chattanooga n
Knoxville have become hives of busy In
dustry, and new towns, destined to rival
cities like Pittsburg, have been founded in
Alabama, which have been christened Birm'
inghsm and Sheffield famous In
Eugland for the excellence of their manu-
factures Of Iron and steel. birmingham is
now the seat of an active iron industry. 1t
has already number of large furnaces, al q
mills tor rolling iron aud steel are about to be
erected, IL contaias at this time some eight
thousand inhabitants. At Sheffield, also,
furnaces have been built, streets laid out,
houses erected, stores opened, aud popula.
tton Ia focking in. What Is more important
still, cheap iron is attracting other industries
one OF the great stove works at Troy, dong
the largest business of its kind ia the United
States, Ia to be removed, or may already have
been removed, either to Alabama or Ten
nessee. Other trades and manufactures are
following, notably Cl6rk's works, which
supplies a large paIt oI the United states
with cotton thread The tine marbles
of Tennessee, for which knoxville is the
principal market are getting to be in request,
and so many manufacturing enterprises
have bsen established there that the populs'
tion has increased from fifteen thousand In
| In 1862 to over $4,000 Chattanooga shows q
similar increase, aud with II has come spec
ulstion In building lots on which large
| profits have been rapidly made, but which
may be carried too far unless kept within
healthy limits. Other Southern cities arr
feeling the impulse, though In lesser degree
Lands are bringing better prices. The haro
| wood forests OF Tennessee and North Caro-
lima, which less than two years ago ooult
have been bought at from sixty cents TO
dollar snd-a quarter an acre, have been
purchased by capitalists, who are gettini
ready to send the timber to send the timoe
to the Eastern markets Great stretches
pine land further south, within easy distanc
OF rail or water carriage, have also bee
bought up. All these facts go to show ths
the South has entered upon an era OF indus
trial activity never known before, and tha
in the course OF few years, she is destine
TO become one of the most prosperous section
| of the Union.